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English

Etymology

From the Latin concipere, to take in.

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-conceive.ogg



Verb

  1. To develop an idea.
  2. To understand someone.
  3. To become pregnant.


Translations

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Conceive \Con*ceive"\, v. i.
1. To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed;
to become pregnant.
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A virgin shall conceive, and bear a son. --Isa. vii.
14.
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2. To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of.
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Conceive of things clearly and distinctly in their
own natures. --I. Watts.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Conceive \Con*ceive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conceived; p. pr. &
vb. n. Conceiving.] [OF. conzoivre, concever, conceveir, F.
concevoir, fr. L. oncipere to take, to conceive; con- +
capere to seize or take. See Capable, and cf.
Conception.]
1. To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the
formation of the embryo of.
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She hath also conceived a son in her old age. --Luke
i. 36.
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2. To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to
originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.
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It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first
conceived the idea of a work which has amused and
exercised near twenty years of my life. --Gibbon.
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Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of
falsehood. --Is. lix. 13.
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3. To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the
mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.
"I conceive you." --Hawthorne.
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O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart
Cannot conceive nor name thee! --Shak.
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You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in
the same climate. --Swift.

Syn: To apprehend; imagine; suppose; understand; comprehend;
believe; think.
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WordNet conceive
v 1: have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help
paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived"
[syn: gestate, conceptualize, conceptualise]
2: judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very
smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he
is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be
inferior" [syn: think, believe, consider]
3: become pregnant; undergo conception; "She cannot conceive";
"My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"
Moby Dictionary
absorb , accept , account as , animate , appreciate , apprehend ,
assimilate , assume , author , be acquainted with , be afraid ,
be apprised of , be aware of , be cognizant of , be conscious of ,
be conversant with , be informed , be with one , bear , beget , believe ,
breathe life into , breed , bring about , bring forth ,
bring into being , bring into existence , bring to effect ,
bring to life , bring to pass , call into being , call into existence ,
catch , catch on , cause , cerebrate , cogitate , cognize , coin ,
come with child , compass , comprehend , conceit , conceptualize ,
conclude , concoct , conjure up , consider , contrive , cook up , couch ,
couch in terms , create , daresay , deduce , deem , design , develop ,
devise , dig , digest , discern , discover , divine , do , dream ,
dream up , effect , effectuate , embody in words , endow with life ,
energize , engender , entertain ideas , envisage , envision , establish ,
esteem , estimate , evolve , excogitate , exercise the mind , expect ,
experience imaginatively , express , fabricate , fancy , fantasize ,
father , fathom , feature , feel , fictionalize , follow , form ,
form ideas , formularize , formulate , found , frame , gather , generate ,
gestate , get , get hold of , get the drift , get the idea ,
get the picture , give being to , give birth , give birth to ,
give expression to , give life to , give occasion to , give origin to ,
give rise to , give words to , grant , grasp , guess , hatch , have ,
have a hunch , have an idea , have an impression , have an inkling ,
have information about , have it taped , have knowledge of ,
have the idea , heed , hold , hold as , hypothesize , ideate , image ,
imagine , improvise , inaugurate , infer , inspirit , institute ,
intellectualize , invent , judge , ken , know , learn , let , let be ,
look upon as , maintain , make , make do with , make out , make up ,
mark , master , mature , meditate , mint , mold , note , notice , observe ,
occasion , opine , originate , paragraph , perceive , phrase , plan ,
plot , ponder , posit , possess , postulate , prefigure , prehend ,
present , presume , presuppose , presurmise , procreate , produce ,
provisionally accept , put , put in words , quicken , read , realize ,
reason , reckon , recognize , regard , remark , repute , rhetorize ,
ruminate , savvy , say , see , seize , seize the meaning , sense ,
set afloat , set down as , set on foot , set out , set up , shape , sire ,
spawn , speculate , state , strike out , style , suggest , superfetate ,
suppose , surmise , suspect , take , take for , take for granted ,
take in , take it , take to be , think , think out , think up , trow ,
twig , understand , view as , vision , visualize , vitalize , vivify ,
ween , word , work , wot , wot of


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